The Salem Observer reports a jury award of $13.5 million on the state’s offer of $3.97 million for the taking of 30 acres for a highway. Plus, the state will be paying $1.2 million in interest. The details as to the legal issue that divided the parties are unclear, but they evidently involved the parties’ disagreement as to the […]
The Beloit Daily News reports the results of a taking of a 4.08-acre parcel by eminent domain for a Beloit school, as follows: The Commissioners awarded $203,000, but on an appeal to a trial court, a jury awarded $382,000 after a three-day trial. The report provides no information as to what was the legal or factual issue that […]
We are reliably informed that a New York trial court (what those folks call the Supreme Court) has entered judgment in favor of the condemnee-owner as follows. Condemnor’s appraiser opined to $2,075,000, but the court rejected that opinion because of condemnor’s erroneous use of highest and best use. It argued that such use was for […]
Word reaches us from Oregon that the Beaverton School District wound up with a $6.7 million verdict against it, on its offer of $1.8 million, for a 15-acre tract of land it took for a school site. See Beaverton School District eminent domain trial ends with $6.7 million verdict, click on http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2014/05/beaverton_school_district_emin_1.html . The jury […]
Because of its first-person sincere-sounding tale of a citizen’s confrontation with a lowball offer, and its happy ending, we reproduce this story in its entirety. ______________________________________________________________ Jack Remembers: In eminent domain, if God can be miserly so can elected officials, Richmond News (On line), Apr.25, 2014. By Jack Hackley This is an election year and […]
A tip of our hat to Dwight Merriam for alerting us to a new U.S. Court of Federal Claims decision, Lost Tree Village Corp. v. United States, No. 08-117L, opinion filed March 14, 2014. This was an inverse condemnation case arising out of the denial of a federal development permit under Section 404, and the […]
Digitaljournal.com reports a condemnation case from Cleburne, Texas, as follows. The taking was by Peregrine Pipelineline Co. for a mile long pipeline easement, from Eagle Ford Land Partners. The offer was $80,000. The jury awarded $1.6 million, and after the court added interest, the total award came to $2.1 million. The controversy centered on the presence […]
We are informed that in an eminent domain case in Terrebone Parish, Louisiana, the Parish originally deposited $236,492.90, to which it added another $48,7899.18. The case then went to trial where after four days of trial (March 17-20, 2014), the jury awarded additional compensation, bringing the total up to $959,448.23, plus interest as well as attorneys […]
A New York trial court (what those folks call the Supreme Court) in Kings County was faced with a case of taking in which the city deposited $3,700,000, which it dropped in trial to $3,675,000. On February 28th, the trial court awarded $5,134,000, plus $425,539 in interest. PJK Realty v. N.Y. State Urban Dev. Corp., Kings […]
The AAA-Electricians case was a taking of 18.8 acres by the Village of Haverstraw which then transferred the subject land to a developer. The village offered the owners $3,480,000, and it made an “advance payment” of $2,596,150, claiming a miscalculation. But at trial, the village came in with an opinion of value of $1,512,000, less $512,000 […]